The Post

Rating (3 out of 5)

Watched the movie tonight at home on the couch. Scott and I have the discussion all the time that location matters about watching films. I don’t necessarily disagree, I think movie theaters can enhance the movie experience, but only enhances, and therefore, if I am watching most of them at home, it is a fair apples to apples comparison.

No movie theater could of improve the Last Jedi, but I digress.

It now has been about an hour since I watched the post, and it strikes me that no character stood out to me. Felt like they bounced around trying to show all the people involved, rather than concentrating on the interactions of one person or another. Was this a story about Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) or Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks)? Was this a political statement, and part of the #metoo movement?

In the end, I felt like this was a nice historical piece, but that was it. I do recommend that those of you who want to remind your children that the press, facts and truth are important and it is important for the press to question our government watch this movie.

One of my key indicators would I watch it again, no not really. I know what you are saying, who ever watches these type of dramas again. Well I watched The King’s Speech just a month or two ago, and it was fantastic. I was moved again my the movie, and was glad to have watched, for a third or fourth time.

What The Post makes me want to watch is All The President’s Men to see how it compares. From what I remember, that movie has a keen focus on the two writers, Woodward and Bernstein and it is that focus that this movie lacked.

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richmare on June 2, 2018 at 4:49 pm

You got this one right, John, re The Post, it just floundered around. I would say historically it did not portray Kay Graham quite right. She was to the manner born and thus shown her as the little indecisive lady being led by the hand by men is wrong. She was a strong assertive woman, although very pleasant, who readily picked up the reins of the Post when her husband was committed prior to his death.She selected Ben Bradlee, as the “hand of the Queen”, to run the post with a goal of becoming a national paper.

I think you are on to something when you implied perhaps Spielberg was making a tribute to the me-too movement. I thought we got the hint of this in the breakfast scene where Kay asks Ben to consider a woman for an assignment. Then for sure in the kitchen scene where Ben’s wife gives him a homily about woman having thoughts and aspirations which were usually ignored or dismissed by their men folk. Finally, in the Supreme Court scene when Kay exited to the almost worshipping looks from an, apparently, all female crowd. Talk about being hit over the head by a two by four. For the record (historically) Kay Graham commented later in her life that she was no early day feminist and, in fact, she was “persuaded” later in life to the merits of the women’s movement.

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